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well, in theory the NIL gravy train is supposed to be over. The school has ~$20M total to spread around the whole varsity program, and any NIL earned by players beyond has to be for actual services rendered. We'll see how much of a joke that does or doesn't turn out to be.

I'm not sure there is a seriatum list anywhere of public statements by MLB clubs to the effect of what they are advising their hitters to do that would be available as the definitive source for this evaluation.....😉 That said, just to look at some recent hitters on the leader boards, it you take the range between Judge and Springer as being guys starting with knees well bent and their back somewhere less than 60 degrees through to Eugenio Suarez and Cal Raleigh as guys who start standing dead straight up there is still a lot of variation. As to whether any hitter is doing what his team advises, who knows?

well, just because the existence of the Universe make no sense and sentience inside that universe makes even less sense that's hardly reason not to be certain about everything is it? 🎓

the second part is pretty close to what Tork said he had to do. He put it more terms being 'more athletic' instead of always trying to take the 'perfect' swing

I think it's pretty much every time. At the start of an NFL season there are maybe half a dozen teams with the talent to win out, and pretty much whichever ones survive the season best physically are going to the SB.

well there was the Charlie Lau school back in the day. There was some crouch there, but the Royals hitters like Brett also leaned back IIRC. It seems logical to me that you are giving up something the further your eyes start from the path of the pitch. I suppose it comes down to whether you think it's swing mechanics or seeing the pitch that is more important. And the truth is that probably varies by player. Maybe best hitter in the game (Judge) has some bend his knees and angle to his back at the plate even if you wouldn't call it a crouch.

for a number of years the Tiger org was on board with 'stand up straight' hitting stances - think Alex Avila, but that was well before the current regime.

looks he got stepped in just as he was trying to step back and with his full weight in motion moving in the other direction he could have hyper-extended it.

I understand the way you are using the terms, which is fine, but I think when survey work is being done, the definition of 'affiliated' is the narrower version: 'a member or regular attendee' of a particular institutional church. That is the way churches themselves use the term.

It's a tricky call on a guy who's going to be a FA in the summer anyway. I'd love to see more leagues copy the NBA with a 'sign and trade' system.

UChi was one of the trips we made with my son but somehow the wires got crossed and there was no-one there to talk to. So we took a self - guided campus tour did some of the city the rest of the day. In the end he did what ended up being the smart thing. Did his undergrad in-state and went out to CA when they were paying him to do his grad work.

The amount of high rise student housing in A^2 has exploded in the last 10 yrs. If there is any dropoff in enrollment there are going to be a lot people getting nice tax loss writeoffs from their REITs. 🔥💲🔥

True. Depends on what's offered though. If teams take the same view Yzerman seems to be taking, which is that Cossa isn't trustworthy, they may not be willing to make that trade. And of course OTOH, if too many folks are lining up to make that trade, maybe the team needs to rethink their own projection for him.

IDK, So I just looked back at some film of Parker 2023 vs 2025 and one thing you can see is that he was standing up much straighter in the box last season. I don't know how good an idea that can be for a guy 6 and half feet tall.

If they can get Parker configured at the plate so he can handle the bottom of the zone, I see hope, because the other aspects of his outcomes weren't so bad. But he couldn't cover the zone with the approach he had last season. And of course if he can stay on the field.

great goalies are what make for hockey dynasties. If you have one, even if it's still a big maybe so far, I don't think you can risk letting that get away for a single season result. I don't see a problem with them carrying three goalies. Talbot should not be playing a lot anyway. When #1 and #2 are 32 and 39 I don't see a problem giving #3 30-50% of the PT.

You had to go there, didn't you? 😉

Yeah - I don't imagine a typical B10 school exactly covets students that decide where to apply based on the football team. The other thing to keep in mind about those 'list' prices is how few people actually pay them. OTOH, everything that can't go on forever will end. Schools like UM have been stealing admissions from the 2nd tier schools all around the state. Eventually those places are going to find a way to make themselves more attractive again or they will be out of business.

At this point the best chance comes back to Ivey. His 3pt% is hovering around 40% and he has the best non-big man eFG on the team after Robinson. The Question is whether he can bring the rest of his game to where he can get the minutes to make a difference.

IDK, but the more time he spends on interior decorating the less he has for screwing up the rest of the country so I'm all in on him doing a complete White House reno.

On a flight from Sydney to Darwin we stopped at tiny airport at GOVE (8,000 ft runway though), which looked like it was only there for the military. Unclear what the stop was for. Maybe something in the cargo hold (triple 7 IIRC)..... The attention span of the US media is so short it hard to know if Xi has let the temperature come down a little over Taiwan (as might be the recent perception) or if it's just fallen off our American media radar.

Or he's just enough of a mensch that he doesn't feel the need to justify himself in public for what he did do in private during a period which is best put in the rear-view mirror. We have no idea either way.

I suppose with academicians the easiest myth to sell is 'you are in the top of your class', i.e. you can join the lucky few schools that actually do make money even if you never have before. Live the dream, be Indiana!

No, they really are not once you include the fundraising you have to do to get to even as as starting point. And even that is only at a minority of schools (as you note). Basketball maybe - way lower overhead to run roundball.

True. My father and Uncle both served in the PTO so I'd heard all the names of the places, but until my trip to Australia I never had any sense of how close WWII came to 'down under'. I'd always known separately about both the Battle of the Coral Sea, and that the Great Barrier Reef was the best place in the world to dive, but never understood they were basically the same place!